Mechanical system for elevating liquids.



F. SALA & J. VAZQUEZ. MECHANICAL SYSTEM FOR ELEVATING LIQUIDS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.17.1913. 1,154,938. PabentedSept. 28, 1915.

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F. SALA & J. VAZQUEZ'. MECHANICAL SYSTEM FOR ELEVATNG LIQUIDS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 17. I913.

\ Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

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Applicationfiled Apri117,1913.- Seria 1'No.T761,813'..

To all whom it may concern: a

Be it known thatwe, Franc sco SALA and Jesus Vazquez, subjects of the Kingof Spain, residing at Caibarien and Yaguajay, in the Province of Santa Clara; Cuba, re spectively, have inventedfnew and useful Improvements in Mechanical Systems for Elevating Liquids, of which the following is;

a specification. I

, Our invention. relates to amechanical system for elevating liquid, and has as its principal object, the provision of a new mechanical system utilizing the alternative com; pression of flexible tubular bodies. full of.

liquid to impel such liquid up. to a desired height. i

inafter described.

The invention is described in connection: with the accompany ng drawings, in wh ch,

Figure 1 is asectional elevation taken on a vertical line through the center of .Fig, 2. Fig.2 is a top plan view of an installation:

made in accordance with our invention.

In the separate views the same part is designated by the same reference character.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 is a ring shaped channel which is preferably built at a level somewhat below that of the ground, although it is not essential that it should-be at such a level.-

Said tank or reservoir 1 is provided With a series of groups of openings such as 22 in its bottom, said groups being spaced equidistant around the periphery of the channel. From the openings 2 siphon pipes 3 lead downward into a large excavation 4: where all of said pipes are connected with tubes of flexible material such as 55 which rest on a horizontal ring shaped platform 6 which is supported by a ring shaped wall at its inner edge, and by the wall 8 of the excavation at its outer edge. -Itwill be apparent also that the flexible tubes are of a segmental shape. The groups of siphon pipes 3 and the connected tubes 5 are arranged in groups as previously mentioned and each group the, center. of the excavation and consequently areparallel with each other. The portions 5: are also separated bymeans of ring shaped .rails or beams 9 fixedlyldisI-x posedj upon the platform 6. Upon these beams or rails 9 roll cylinders or rollers: 10. whose shafts 11 are mounted j in hanging arms 12, suspended from the radial spokes 12 of a large horizontal wheel 13,mounted looselyon a. shaft or vertical pivot 14: fixed on a stand or pedestal 15 disposed in the center ofthe excavation 4. Said tubes5 run through the platform v6 at each end connecting a't'one end with the pipes below the platform and at the other end with tubes outer edge ofthe channel 1 and which, at the r lower end,'curve up underneath the ends of, the tubes 5. The pipes or tubes 16 are provided with check. valves 17 immediately below the platform 6 and at their bent overso" as to empty into said trough. The ringshaped trough .18 ismounted ina horizontal plane on the stanchions 19 which may be of any desired height, and the channel 18 empties by means of a section 20 into a large reservoir or tank having its bottom in the shape of a funnel 21. The tank 20 is supported by a suitable frame such as 22.

It will be seen also that the lower end of the funnel 21 is provided with a tubular extension 21 at the lower end of which is a valve or way cock indicated at 23.

Suitably disposed on a pair of bearings such as 23* is a motor 25 of any approved type power for operating which may be generated in any known manner.

The motor 24 is provided with a shaft 26 on which is a channeled pulley 31 from which the horizontal wheel 13 is driven by means of an endless rope or cable such as 27 which passes from the wheel 81 onto two vertical sheaves such as 30 after leaving which it passes on to two horizontal sheaves such as 29 from which it passes around the grooved block 28 set around the. outer edge, of the wheel-13 at the top thereof.

1 e v 4 suchas 16 which are disposed about the.

A a further object residesv in the particular arrangement and. combination ofparts here- 1 a platform 6 so as to connectwith the other I The operation is as follows Cylin ders 1.0 suspended from the wheel 13 are disposed in the intermediate position between the groups of tubes or hose 5, and it will be seen that all of the hose 5 will be filled the check valve 17 toward the vertical tubes Ii Themovement of the horizontal wheel '23 16 discharging in the upper trough'18. From '18 the water will feed the reservoir tank 21, so that by opening the way cook 23 the liquid will be discharged when desired.

willcontinue by means of the transmission efi'ected by the endless cable 27, being uni formly driven by a motor 24. The movement of the wheel 23 mustalways take place in such a direction that the cyli will compress the horizontal sections 5 of the hose 5 in suchfa way that they will always be directed from the siphon pipes 3 toward the tubes 16 so that the liquld cannot come back because of'the check'valve 17. The

tubes 5 having been emptied by the rotation of the wheel 13 are filled immediately by the water flowing in from the channel 1 by.

A 7 means of the pipes 3.

"3 our pumping apparatus by means of any It will be understood from the fact that we have shown an arrangement in which the rotating wheel 13 and the pumping -cylinders attached thereto are driven'by means of a conventional motor that we might drive suitable motor such as electric or gasolene engines especially if our pumping apparatus is to be used in irrigation. It will thus be seen that while we have shown and described the preferred form of our invention,

various changes may bemade therein without departing from the spirit of our invention, and that parts of our invention may be used without utilizing the whole.

, Having thus described our invention, what we claim is A'mechanical system for elevating liquid comprising in combination, a liquid reservoir in the shape of a ring shaped channel, a series of tubes adapted to discharge liquid from said reservoir'by the action of gravity,

a circular horizontally disposed platform,

provided with a series of groups of flexible tubeshaving their ends secured to said discharge tubes, equally spaced upon said platform, each of saidgroups comprising a plurality of hose units clisposedin parallel,

relation, said elevating tubes connected to the other end of eachof said flexible tubes and a check valve provided for said elevat-, .5

ing tubes, and rollers adapted to compress a series of tubes simultaneously the exposed surface of each "of said hose units having a length less than the space between adjacent units whereby the water therein isforced through said check Valves into said elevating pipes.

tures in the presence of two'witnesses.

' FRANCO. SALA.

H JESUS 'VAZQUEZ;

Witnessesz' 1 i r i I TRUJILLO,

M. Dm'z.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D'. G. V V i In testlmony whereof we afiix our signa 

